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Post by michaelw on Jul 23, 2021 7:18:01 GMT -5
Well, I'll admit that his answer was a bit dickish and impolitic. But, having also spent over 20 years in the restaurant industry, at all levels (including running several restaurants), I can tell you that any restauranteur that has a clue what they're doing can absolutely afford to pay their staff livable wages, including paying their wait staff much more than $2.13/hour (Herman Cain's fault). If they can't, then they deserve to go out of business for being shitty, greedy bosses. It wasn't the wisest thing, politically, for Biden to say, but there's absolutely a certain truth to it. I know a lot of people from the restaurant industry who did all they could during the pandemic to get out of it in the hopes of never having to return. And, given how thankless, low-paying, and shitty that industry is, I don't blame them at all. I did the same thing. Yeah, I had a similar reaction. The comments seemed a bit ham-fisted (what a shock, coming from Biden, right?), but the basic idea here is right, IMO. A lot of business owners will go on and on about how wonderful competition is.... until they have to compete for labor, of course.
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Post by robeiae on Jul 29, 2021 7:28:44 GMT -5
It's such a little lie, totally pointless, but now everything is under a microscope: www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-claims-driven-18-wheelerEveryone with half a brain knows it's a lie too, one that should be laughed at with a "sure, sure, Joe." But now, everything is defended to the hilt: Yeah, okay.
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Post by michaelw on Jul 29, 2021 8:28:36 GMT -5
LOL. That's pretty funny.
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Post by Optimus on Jul 29, 2021 13:11:23 GMT -5
There's a phenomenon of false memory called "observation inflation" (related to something called "imagination inflation") where simply observing an event that involves another person can cause false memories to form such that the observer later falsely recalls that THEY were the actor/participant in the event, rather than actually being the person who was watching or "along for the ride" during the event. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20689054/Whenever Biden makes one of his outlandish claims, I often wonder how much is due to him just being a standard bullshitting politician, how much is due to cognitive decline, and how much might be examples of false memories (via observation inflation, for example) that he's simply erroneously remembering happened to him. Who knows what goes on in that swiss cheese brain of his?
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Post by robeiae on Jul 30, 2021 7:27:22 GMT -5
I remember this time, after I got back from 'Nam, where I was just passing through this small town and the sheriff there started hasslin' me for no reason. I ended up up hiding out in the mountain and I had to kill a bunch of guys they sent to get me...
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Post by prozyan on Jul 30, 2021 10:22:22 GMT -5
I remember this time, after I got back from 'Nam, where I was just passing through this small town and the sheriff there started hasslin' me for no reason. I ended up up hiding out in the mountain and I had to kill a bunch of guys they sent to get me... Can't wait until you go back to rescue a bunch of missing POWs. Hopefully you find my great-Uncle!
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Post by Optimus on Jul 30, 2021 12:22:20 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Apr 4, 2022 16:41:09 GMT -5
Large Marge?
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Post by michaelw on Apr 5, 2022 21:46:27 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Apr 8, 2022 6:57:31 GMT -5
Ummmm....
My first thought:
Biden: Can I smell your hair? AOC: Eek!
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Post by Optimus on Apr 8, 2022 17:34:46 GMT -5
Biden: "This is my 'paying attention in important meetings' face." AOC: "This is my "scared for my life" face from 1/6 when protestors stormed a building roughly 1/4 of a mile away from the one I was in."
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Post by robeiae on Apr 28, 2022 10:58:06 GMT -5
Somebody start prepping Harris...
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Post by Optimus on Apr 29, 2022 18:58:06 GMT -5
I'm sure his handlers will fall back on the classic excuse of "stuttering," but that's bullshit. Overwhelming majority of stutterers outgrow it before the age of 10 (most are over it by 5). Additionally, his dubious and ever-updating biographies continually claim that he overcame stuttering as a child. Also, given his long career in politics, it's pretty clear that he hasn't been a stutterer in his adult life. So...yeah. I'm not sure what the explanation is but I'm almost convinced that his handlers pump him full of just enough dementia drugs and caffeine to get him through his brief public appearances, but I wonder if these weird brain farting clips are evidence of the "cognitive cocktail" wearing off. I just find it really hard to believe that he has any idea what's going on most of the time. He's not really woke but so many things in his administration skew heavily far left, I'm convinced it's because people make decisions for him and just tell him not to worry about it. For instance, there's no way a sane, rational, intelligent liberal would think it's a good idea to appoint this deranged woke lunatic to any position at all, not least of which in charge of countering disinformation. nypost.com/2022/04/29/biden-disinfo-czar-nina-jankowicz-ripped-over-tiktok/
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Post by robeiae on Apr 30, 2022 6:41:06 GMT -5
Lol, maybe it's the Jonas Nightengale justification? Who better to spot disinformation than someone who was effectively spreading it?
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Post by robeiae on May 2, 2022 14:50:14 GMT -5
So apparently "politically neutral" now means "batshit crazy woke left."
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